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• The importance of clinical trials in identifying tomorrow’s treatment options

  Today is International Clinical Trials Day, an important day on the UCLH calendar because research is an integral part of UCLH’s mission.

• Study highlights need to identify healthcare staff who lose sense of taste or smell

  Researchers from UCLH, UCL and the University of East Anglia have highlighted the need to identify, test and isolate healthcare workers who experience a new loss of taste or smell (anosmia).

• From analogue to digital dentistry with UK’s first Epic integration

  The full integration of intra-oral scanners with Epic improves efficiency and enhances patient experience by significantly reducing appointment times and appointment-to-treatment times so patients receive the right care faster.

• Elective Placements and visiting doctors at HTD

  Elective Placements and visiting doctors at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

• Patients more likely to be admitted to critical care after surgery if a bed is available

  Bed availability is a “significant” factor in determining whether or not a patient is admitted to a critical care bed after surgery, questioning whether some are getting the care they need, a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH has found for the first time.

• Research confirms very low risk of COVID transmission from mother to unborn baby

  The research team said the placenta acted as a barrier to transmission.

• Congratulations to Anne McTiernan and Jo Coleman on winning Sarcoma UK’s inaugural Shining Star award

  Winning the award - Sarcoma Healthcare Professionals Innovation and Excellence – CNS London Sarcoma Service, The National Sarcoma Educational Programme. Jo and Anne had the vision of sharing a regular in-house education session to bring sarcoma nurses and doctors together. These monthly sessions have seen a broad range of speakers and experts in the sarcoma field from other sarcoma units, charities and researchers sharing their knowledge.

• Researchers use AI to enhance and personalise brain tumour imaging

  UCL and UCLH researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool that can assess a patient’s brain tumour scan and provide greater patient-personalised detail to aid their treatment.

• Study sheds light on barriers to recruitment of ethnic minority patients to research

  A study has shed light on multiple factors in the recruitment process in research that act as barriers to the recruitment of patients from minority ethnic groups to trials.

• Brain surgery survivor’s labour of love to bring Chelsea garden to hospital

  Brain surgery survivor’s labour of love to bring Chelsea garden to hospital